6.4 Prerequisites and Requirements for Installing the Identity Manager Engine

Before installing the Identity Manager engine, review the following considerations:

  • Before installing the Identity Manager engine, you must install the Identity Vault. Also, the Identity Vault must contain a tree with at least one organizational unit, one user, and an iManager server.

  • (Conditional) To install the Remote Loader on the same computer as the Identity Manager engine, ensure that you select an operating system that supports both components. For more information about system requirements for the Remote Loader, see Section 6.6, Prerequisites and Requirements for Installing the Remote Loader.

  • (Conditional) If you install the Identity Manager engine as a non-root user, the installation process does not install NetIQ Sentinel Platform Agent, UNIX/Linux Account Driver, or Remote Loader. You must install these components separately.

6.4.1 Considerations for Installing Drivers with the Identity Manager Engine

Many variables affect the performance of the server where you install the Identity Manager engine, including the number of drivers running on the server. When planning where to install the drivers, NetIQ provides the following recommendations:

  • In general, have no more than 10 drivers running on the server.

  • If you plan to synchronize millions of objects with each driver, reduce the number of drivers on the server.

  • If you plan to synchronize 100 objects or fewer per driver, you might be able to run more than 10 drivers on the server.

  • To create a baseline on server performance which helps you determine the optimum number of drivers, use the health monitoring tools in iManager. For more information about the health monitoring tools, see Monitoring Driver Health in the NetIQ Identity Manager 4.0.2 Common Driver Administration Guide.

For more information about activating Identity Manager drivers after installation, see Section 45.0, Activating Identity Manager.

6.4.2 System Requirements for Installing the Identity Manager Engine

This section provides requirements to help you set up the server hosting the Identity Manager engine.

Category

Requirement

Processor

For servers running Red Hat and SUSE Linux Enterprise and Windows operating systems:

  • AMD x86 32-bit

  • AMD Anthlon64

  • AMD Opteron

  • Intel x86 32-bit

  • Intel EM64T

Memory

  • 2048 MB

  • 200 MB for Identity Manager Drivers

Operating System

One of the following operating systems, at a minimum:

  • Open Enterprise Server 2015 (64-bit)

  • Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit)

  • Red Hat 6.2 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Red Hat 5.7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Oracle Solaris 10 (64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 (64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)

NOTE:You cannot use the integrated installation process on a system running Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit) or Open Enterprise Server 2015 (64-bit).

Virtualization Systems

One of the following systems running a supported operating system unless otherwise noted:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization

  • VMware ESXi Workstation 6.5

  • VMware ESXi 5.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • VMware ESXi 4.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • VMware ESXi 4.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • VMware ESX 4.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization with Hyper-V (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Xen Virtual Machine running SLES 10 or SLES 11 as a guest operating system in para-virtualized mode and SLES 10 SP2 as the host operating system

NOTE:

  • The VMware ESX and ESXi systems can also run the VMware version of SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit) as the guest operating system.

  • You must use the integrated installation process for the following virtualization systems:

    • VMware Workstation 6.5

    • VMware ESXi 5.0

    • VMware ESXi 4.1

    • Xen Virtual Machine running Windows 8 R2 as a guest operating system in para-virtualized mode

Operating System Hotfixes

Before installing Identity Manager, NetIQ recommends that you apply the latest operating system patches according to the manufacturer’s automated update facility.

Software

All of the following products:

  • NetIQ eDirectory 8.8.7, at a minimum

  • iManager 2.75, at a minimum